GE Mine Performance
powered by Predix
If you’re like most mining companies, you need to improve both your
processes and your equipment availability to optimize throughput
and recovery. You also need to minimize your energy costs, and do
so in a sustainable, compliant manner. But how do you balance all
these goals? How do you drive analysis and decisions to mitigate
risks and achieve the operating improvements you need?
Increase throughput
and availability
You’ve already invested in data for decision making
Yet, problems still persist. Your current systems don’t provide the insight you need to leverage the data and obtain maximum performance. You’re not getting the right information to the right people at the right time. This analysis gap consumes your people and your asset lives. Processes are being operated sub-optimally, and assets aren’t getting fixed before they fail. Throughput, recovery, and availability are suffering, constraining your operational and financial performance.
“We now can provide a service to the mines where they can move away from the traditional way of doing maintenance and implement a more predictive maintenance approach. The Mine Performance software enables the mines to detect and warn on truck degrading and helps the maintenance teams to pinpoint problems for faster repair times.”
GE Mine Performance
powered by Predix—
maximize performance
The GE Mine Performance powered by Predix solution helps close this analysis gap. It’s an all-in-one, real-time, 24/7 solution that helps you make timely and accurate decisions that balance process performance with equipment health. The solution increases:
Operational Visibility—to help you get
the most out of your available resources and meet production targets safely and in compliance.
Availability & Reliability—to maximize the
time that equipment is available to produce ROA. The solution allows for quick, planned repairs—but only when they’re needed.
Performance Optimization—to improve
operating results through better asset and process performance, utilization, and planning.
As an example, take a milling circuit. The Mine Performance solution calculates the optimal setpoints to stabilize and optimize the circuit. At the same time, the solution provides real-time predictive anomaly detection and diagnostics to increase asset availability and reduce maintenance costs. The solution monitors the sump pump, electric motor, and gearbox, and maximizes the lining lifetime. The solution can improve throughput from 1 to 10%, within grind quality constraints, while also minimizing specific energy consumption (kWh/t).
How does the solution improve
process performance?
The Mine Performance solution is a proven technology that reduces process variability and inefficiency, improves product consistency, increases throughput by allowing operations to push constraints to the limits, and achieves higher ROA. The solution includes a suite of production-management applications that work together to enhance performance. The applications consist of modules and tools for:
6 Offline and real-time multivariate process control
6 Offline and real-time process deviation cause analyses
6 Advanced process control 6 Control loop monitoring
These applications are used for identifying and visualizing abnormal process variations, visualizing causes for process variation in real time, and identifying and visualizing poorly performing control assets. The applications can be configured and customized for optimal use. Customized applications include real-time displays and the use of a unique combination of advanced analytical techniques to properly account for the complexity of any process.
Customer increases
fleet availability from
70% to 85%
Challenges:
6 High haul-truck maintenance and replacement costs.
6 Even larger expenses due to lost production.
6 Fragmented, incomplete, and user-unfriendly OEM coverage.
6 Data overload. Results:
6 Increased availability from 70-85%. 6 Reduced lost production due to
decrease in breakdowns.
Now expanding the solution globally— across equipment, across operations.
How does the solution improve
asset availability?
We use a data-driven empirical approach that leverages your existing instrumentation and IT infrastructures. Our software constantly samples data from your historian and analyzes the data to detect, diagnose, and prioritize impending problems.
In the GE Mine Performance powered by Predix solution, each piece of equipment is unique, as reflected in its own historical data. Our advanced modeling, protected by over 40 patents, puts into context the normal operating relationships
The software does this automatically, continuously, and relentlessly, 24 hours/ day. A typical early incident alert from the Mine Performance solution occurs 3-10 weeks before other systems.
among all relevant parameters, such as load, temperatures, pressures, vibration readings, and ambient conditions. In real time, the software compares actual sensor readings to that particular machine’s normal, predicted values. The Mine Performance software detects and identifies events and abnormal behavior by the differences between real-time, actual data and predicted, normal behavior—not by thresholds on actual values. The software then provides exception-based notifications of developing problems to users, along with diagnoses and prioritizations. This enables information management by exception.
When it sees a problem, the GE Mine Performance powered by Predix solution sends a notification to the people who need to know—with a brief summary of the problem, key tags, and values. Multiple alerts are combined into one diagnostic notification, which narrows the range of potential problems and reports urgency. This drives productivity toward resolving pressing equipment issues in order to avoid more expensive surprises down the line.
“Some systems are just too complex and have too many variables for operators to run optimally. That‘s when we need the help of dedicated advanced control intelligence that can deal with the complexities of our unique problems, rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.”
Tim Spandiel Manager Impala Base Metals Refinery As quoted in MMS Magazine, June 2008
Easy to use 6 quick value
There are two ways to consume the Mine Performance solution. We can host the solution and provide monitoring services for you remotely in our Industrial Performance & Reliability Center, or you can host the solution at your premises. In all cases, though, we deploy the solution and maintain the models to ease implementation, integration, and everyday use and help you obtain value quickly and optimally. Our customers report ROI in 6-12 months, some much sooner—and over 95% renew their subscriptions each year, attesting to the continuing value and service they receive.
Our Industrial Performance & Reliability Center provides optional, full, and flexible support 7 days/week to large-equipment operators worldwide. The center currently is monitoring over 4,000 assets spanning the Mining, Power, and Oil & Gas industries.
Customer decreases flow variability through
flotation circuit by 50%
Challenges: 6 Inconsistent flow.
6 Need for manual intervention. 6 Need to stabilize flow for
down-stream flotation levels.
Results:
6 Decreased flow variability by 50%. 6 Increased throughput by 5%. 6 Increased recovery.
1. Combine both process optimization
and predictive analytics. One solution
handles it all.
What makes the GE Mine Performance powered by Predix solution different? We uniquely:
2. Make it easy, no matter where you
are. We provide comprehensive global
support. Our experts implement and maintain the software and can provide full and flexible monitoring services, as desired.
3. Are proven. GE software has been deployed hundreds of times. We’re currently
monitoring over 12,000 critical rotary, reciprocal, and fixed assets around the world, across industries, and we can provide references for process optimization in the mining industry. Our depth of experience in large industrial-equipment monitoring and predictive analytics encompasses hundreds of millions of machine hours. We continue to automate and innovate while driving value to our customers.
Concentrator
Lining lifetime, sump pumps, PID’s, PSA, motors, gearboxes, pumps
Utilities
Turbines, compressors, water plant, pumps, PID’s, generators
Mining Operations
Haul trucks, dozers, longwalls, excavators, draglines, crushers
4. Work across all critical equipment,
all OEM’s. The software detects the
broadest range of equipment problems across the widest variety of assets, load ranges, and failure modes.
5. Are global in reach and deep in
experience. GE has been serving the
mining industry for over 80 years. The Mine Performance solution is supported globally by GE Mining, which offers a broad range of products and services for every step of the mining process.
Customer increases
throughput in milling
circuit by 9.75%
Challenges:6 Sub-optimal throughput. 6 Circuit instability and poor grind
quality.
6 Sub-optimal energy consumption. Results:
6 9.75% increase in throughput. 6 Stable circuit and consistent grind
quality.
6 Decreased specific energy.
Throughput before Mine Performance Solution
Throughput after Mine Performance Solution
GE Mine Performance
powered by Predix
solution portfolio
Offering availability and process
optimization in all of these areas.
For more information
about how the GE Mine
Performance powered by
Predix solution can deliver
results for your mining
business, visit
www.ge.com/digital
Downstream
Acid plant, furnace, leaching, pumps, PID’s, dryers, kilns, roasters
Contact information
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www.ge.com/digital
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